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...result of Section 4(e), some 8,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans registered to vote for the first time in the Nov. 2 elections. Last week, however, a three-judge Federal District Court in Washington ruled that the amendment was unconstitutional. A suit challenging the section claimed that, under Article I of the Constitution, Congress had no right to impose laws governing voter qualifications in any state. Government attorneys had argued that New York violated the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause by disenfranchising Puerto Rican voters, pointing out that Congress acted years ago to encourage cultural autonomy...
...appropriate recourse," said the court, would be an amendment to the constitution of the State of New York. Instead, the Justice Department planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, where a hearing on the full Voting Rights Act is scheduled on Jan. 17, as the result of another suit...
...Astronaut Charles Bassett climbs out of the Gemini 9 some time next year to take a walk in space, the very name of his mission-EVA (for extravehicular activity) -may have to be changed. Bassett will be not so much outside one vehicle as inside another. His air-conditioned suit with its $6,000,000 backpack containing 166 lbs. of assorted gadgetry will amount to a spacecraft in itself...
Gilligan was later exonerated in both grand jury and departmental investigations, which held that he killed in self-defense after being attacked with a knife. As a result, last May he filed a $5,250,000 libel suit alleging that he had been falsely accused of murder by a flock of civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King. Predictably, the defendants moved for dismissal on the ground that the Times doctrine stripped Gilligan of any cause for action. Predictably, Gilligan's lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, countered by claiming that the doctrine does not apply to a minor, nonelected government...
...both sides." Apparently, neither Washington and Lee (B.A.), nor the Yale grad school (Ph.D. in American Studies), nor reporting stints in Springfield, Washington, and Latin stints in Springfield, Washington, and Latin America prepared him for New York. "I expected to see Mark Hellinger sauntering down Broadway in a white suit," he said to three different Harvard audiences, "but everybody wore these drab things...